Cultural Geography
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- One particular dialect of English, the one associated with upper class Britons living in the London area. Recognized as the standard form of British speech.
- British Received pronunciation (BRP)
- A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
- Creole or creolized language
- A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunication.
- Dialect
- Combination of ebony and phonics.
- Ebonics
- Once in use but no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.
- Extinct Language
- Represent ideas or concepts.
- Ideograms
- A word usage boundary
- Isogloss
- A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
- Isolated Language
- A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
- Language
- A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
- Language Branch
- A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history.
- Language Family
- A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
- Language Group
- A language of international communication.
- Lingua Franca
- A system of written communication
- Literary tradition
- Language used by the government ofr laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps.
- Official Language
- To communicate with speakers of another language, two groups construct a pidgin language by learning a few of the grammar rules and words of a lingua franca, while mixing in some elements of their own languages.
- Pidgin Language
- A combination of the languages Spanish and English.
- Spanglish
- A dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication.
- Standard Language
- The spoken form of Latin, opposite the standard literary form.
- Vulgar Latin
- Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
- Animism
- A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.
- Autonomous Religion
- A large and fundamental division within a religion.
- Branch
- The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law.
- Caste
- A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.
- Cosmogony
- A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.
- Denomination
- The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Diocese
- A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.
- Ethnic Religion
- Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion.
- Fundamentalism
- During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to dentoe a section of a city in which members of any minority group live becasue of social, legal, or economic pressure.
- Ghetto
- A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.
- Hierarchical religion
- An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.
- Missionary
- The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god.
- Monotheism
- A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times.
- Pagan
- A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
- Pilgrimmage